Short Fiction

APEX MAGAZINE

Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.

APEX MAGAZINE

Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.

Genre short fiction from Apex Magazine

BySuyi Davies Okungbowa

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Dune Song

Do not go out to the dunes, the Chief says to Isiuwa. You’d do well not to awaken the wrath of the whistling gods.

ByDerek Lubangakane

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A Fool’s Baneful Gallantry

At sunfall, the sellward, the spellcaster, and the wyrmrider paused at the foot of a dune and peered at the sun wester across the Sahael, the sea of sand.

ByJason Sizemore

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All Votes Will Be Counted (We Promise)

When the Clausens got to the voting place, most of the town had already arrived. Clausen was tired from work, and tired of voting, but he tried to smile as he held Claudia’s hand and Jenny and Jimmy went up the steps in front of them.

ByAmal Singh

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Professor Strong and the Brass Boys

I stand backstage, anxious. My cognitive implant, fed by a recursive code, tells me this is a bad idea. It tells me this decision is, as humans would say, impulsive. I am desperate. Desperate to make a good entrance. Desperate to make a point.

ByJason Sizemore

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O Have You Seen the Devle with his Mikerscope and Scalpul?

Well. Look at you, Mary Ann Nichols, drinking in the Frying Pan.

ByRussell Nichols

Curse Like a Savior

Jesus Christ is dropping f-bombs again.

ByBen Serna-Grey

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Where Gods Dance

This one was made of glass. He wasn’t all that similar to my son, but he was sweet with a high, gentle voice like wind blowing across branches.

ByElana Gomel

The Prison-house of Language

Language always felt, to me, like an invasion.

ByHayley Stone

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Cold Iron Comfort

Apá always said I could come home. He never had to say the words if it doesn’t work out, but I heard them clear enough the day I left to live amongst the Fair Folk.